Vol. 9, Issue 1, Part F (2023)

Robert Frost’s poems contain many characters who the reader easily recognizes as a country folk without any pretentions. North of Boston” contain numerous such characters. In the poem The Death of the Hired Mar, we come across Siysd-s person who clings to the irresponsibility and to decline to his need for self-respect. In the poem The Black Cottage the priest depicts the old fashioned New England lady in an interesting manner. Frost believed that “All the fun’s in how you say a thing,” and we find on o-xd river river voicing the same view in the poem The Mountain. These people cannot be seen separate from their original surroundings. They represent the country folk and posses all the shrewd, wry, tough minded Yankee perceptions. They are universal because of their timeless human traits of stubborn pride, or humour, or integrity.